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'The suspension of disbelief' versus 'the budget of believability'
Why some stories lose their readers.
Oct 5
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Writing exercise: create a short story in five sentences!
Tried and tested approach to fun storytelling.
Sep 7
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What can we learn from the foreshadowing in Jaws?
How all the pieces are put in place, but the ending still delights us.
Aug 16
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Post-mortem: Empty Influence
Yo, yo, yo! Don't forget to smash that subscribe button and ring that bell as we dive into the writing techniques used in last week's short story.
Aug 7
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Writing exercise: take a story and flip it (or 'Is Trump a tool for Satan?*')
*of course Trump isn't. Satan isn't real.
Jul 19
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Writing tips: loose ends and endings
How much do you need to tie up at the end of a story?
Jun 23
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Post-mortem: writing Accommodating Mr Landown
What choices did I make while writing this short horror story?
Jun 15
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Writing tips: Freud's idea of the uncanny and why it helps horror writers
Typed for you by a severed hand.
May 25
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Post-mortem: The Ocean Turns
Examining the writing techniques in last week's tiny horror story
May 18
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Writing exercise: modernising a classic
An exercise in rewriting Wuthering Heights into a modern style, and how this helps you find your own voice.
May 4
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Writing tips: the simplest plot structure for short stories
A reliable three-beat plot structure for short stories, which might just be damned good fun to write and read.
Apr 28
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Post-mortem: writing A Good Human Father
Possibly the weirdest story I've written.
Apr 20
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